California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video]

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Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - Figure  3 provides our overall ranking of each measure across the three criteria. Option C ranks best in both historic similarity and fidelity to the current concept. While it faces some risk from future publication decisions, these risks are similar to the risk for options A and B, which still require metropolitan area statistics on prices for specific spending categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - California is the only state that has an explicit competitive element to its tax credit, as it ranks projects using a formula that weighs the wages that will be generated by a production versus the value of credits that will be allocated t o that project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - In general, adjusting for prices in a high–priced area like San Francisco reduces both the child’s income rank and the parents’ income rank. As a result, a child’s rank in the income spectrum does not change much relative to the parents’ rank.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - In unadjusted dollar terms, at $380 per week, California ’s average weekly benefit rank around the middle of U.S. states. However, wages are higher in California than they are in most other states. As a result, California ’s average weekly UI benefits as a share of average weekly wages rank near the bottom, as shown in Figure  9 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2018-19 Budget: California Competes Proposal

Feb 21, 2018 - GO-Biz uses a two-stage evaluation process to identify the businesses that will receive a California Competes tax credit: In the first stage, the applications are scored and ranked based only on (1)  the amount of tax credit that the business requested and (2)  the total dollar value of their proposed hiring and investments over five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3759

Understanding California’s Property Taxes - Tax Receipts Vary [Video]

In these videos, Principal Fiscal and Policy Analyst Mark Whitaker and Fiscal and Policy Analyst Chas Alamo discuss California's property tax as a companion piece to the LAO's report "Understanding California's Property Taxes."Watch the Videos on YouTube
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